I watched 1917 last night. It was a very confronting/realistic movie- I “enjoyed” it and felt very connected to it as my Grandfather served in the 58th infantry battalion who were right there involved in that battle. He spent many months on the Western Front as well as Fromelles & Villers Bretonneux. Impossible to imagine what life was like for these ‘ordinary’ men who were ripped from their daily lives at home (my pop was a teacher) & thrown into such unbelievably hard and dangerous situations for years. He was lucky to come home as 615 of them were killed and another 1,500+ Injured.
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Haha I loved Big
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Glad you enjoyed it and had a connection through your grandfather, and thanks for sharing a bit of your grandfather’s story.
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Just watched Hugh Jackman in 2018’s “The Front runner”, a film I’d never heard of and didn’t know he’d made.
Now I know why that was.
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That’s quite a review 
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Cool avatar btw…
Just rewatched Contagion on Netflix. Geez, they got a lot of stuff accurate.
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Watched Deepwater Horizon last night.
Well put together, and it turns out pretty close to the truth of the whole ordeal. Pretty good.
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Just finished watching The 2nd on Netflix.
It was incredibly BAD
I couldn’t stop watching though as I wanted to see if they could really make 93 minutes of pure b grade dross.
They could.
Do yourselves a favour…do not waste your time with this.
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I can 2nd this review.
The first give away is Ryan Phillipe as the lead.
Finally caught Tenet.
If you thought Inception was complicated, this is a level higher.
I honestly think a diagram of the film structure is required to follow it properly…if anyone says they ‘got it all’, on the first viewing, having gone in cold - well I’m calling them a liar or freakish savant.
The film must have been unleashed on test audiences first. My suggestion for the questionnaire would have been “How far did you make it into the 150 mins before first thinking I give up?”
Look, I’m a Nolan admirer, as he’s given me many of my very best movie experiences…but with Inception/Tenet, I’m really debating the fairness of films that CANNOT be followed with a single viewing.
Maybe stories of this complexity would be digestible, if the viewer-education arc was longer, and slower, like in a TV series.
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Mum was literally having a panic attack while watching it, it overwhelmed her so much.
I followed it reasonably well, but I’ve watched and read a heap of sci-fi playing with time travel. When you have the concepts and story telling tricks already in your mind, you have something to latch onto. If time travel isn’t your thing, you have no reference, it’s just chaos.
Didn’t help that the plot exposition scenes had music blaring over the dialog. And Nolan’s attitude was just absorb the spectacle, don’t stress about the details, so he intentionally didn’t make it accessible.
Great technical achievement. Interesting idea, will be a fun rewatch. I love that a concept like this got the funding to play with the ideas, but I doubt we will ever see a movie like it again.
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Went and saw The Dry this arvo.
Pretty bloody good, but as I’ve commented in book reviews, you never have any idea of the Jane Harper dénouements until the last 20 pages…or 20 minutes.
Saw the guy from Horsham CA who was down last week. He’d told me he was in the funeral scene with his son, and yes, there they were…and in the long list of townspeople in the credits, there they were…the last two. The two old ducks behind me also told me that the officiating priest had been a parish priest in Warrnambool. I refrained from the customary jibes.
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Just watched 'Sound of Metal’s on Amazon Prime. Riz Ahmed 
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Incredible movie, underpinned by a great story, but pulled together by the editing.
The scene at night in the town got a bit over the top, but it’s just an end to end classic.
(Some people didn’t like it tho)
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I saw it today. I thought it was great!!
I watched a Promising young woman. Great performances all round - riveting and tense with some genuinely funny moments. Recommend.
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I didn’t notice it myself…but apparently Eric Bana was offered a Budweiser in the pub scene. Some clown said they drink Bud in western Vic…not on the SW Coast…and I’m sure not in the Wimmera…or the Western District…or the Mallee…or Sunraysia.
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I noticed the beer brand but I didn’t realise it would be a big deal.
for fans of The Princess Bride. Soooooo many great cameos!!
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